List of Medical Wikis

AIDS Wiki

Self-Description:AIDS Wiki is a community gathering place for AIDS dissidents to assist and foster activism. The wiki reflects a pro-dissident POV, although the diversity of opinion present among AIDS dissidents is respected. Verifiability criteria are relaxed in good judgment regarding reports of recent newsworthy events and announcements of upcoming planned events.

Language:English

Intended Users: Activists

Articles:133 (21 sep 2010)

Contributors:Anyone who registers (registering by sending email to the admin)

Ask Dr Wiki

Self-Description:AskDrWiki.com is a nonprofit educational website operated as a public service by the Open Access Medical Informatics Group, a 501(c)(3) non profit company. you can publish your review articles, clinical notes, pearls, and medical images on the site. Using a wiki anyone with a medical background can contribute or edit medical articles. The Main focus has been on Cardiology and Electrophysiology but we have started to expand to other specialties.

Language:English

Intended Users: for physicians, residents and medical students.

Articles:1,369 (21 sep 2010)

Contributors:Licensed clinical professionals who have proven their credentials to the satisfaction of editors.

The Clinical Research Informatics Wiki

Self-Description:The CRI Wiki is an implementation of a wiki devoted to topics in clinical research informatics. Despite many efforts ongoing in the field of CRI, coordination and communication of such efforts remains a challenge, even across groups focused on clinical research and biomedical informatics.

Language:English

Articles:14 (21 sep 2010)

Contributors:Anyone who registers. (The site seems broken and Registering page cannot be accessed)

Emergency Medicine

Ganfyd

Self-Description:The free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. Ganfyd is a collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts. The site is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge.

Language:English

Intended Users:healthcare professionals

Articles:7,070 (21 sep 2010)

Contributors:qualified doctors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia

Human Physiology

Immunology

The McGill Library Global Health Resource Guide

Self-Description:The McGill Global Health Resource Guide was created as a wiki to promote collaboration between all McGill people working in the field of global health. All McGill faculty, clinicians, researchers and students are encouraged to use and add to these resources. We hope this resource guide will attract a global audience, and promote collaboration between professionals within, and beyond, the McGill Community.

MLA-HLS Wiki

Self-Description:The hospital librarians’ wiki is sponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association. The purpose is to provide a sandbox in which we can share best practices in a forum that is easily accessed, archived, searched, and modified.

Language:English

Intended Users:Medical Librarians

Articles:?

Contributors:Users must apply to become contributors and be approved by administrators.

Neurodegeneration Research Wiki

Self-Description:This Wiki site is maintained by the MRC Centre for Neurodegenerative diseases. Its aim is to provide information on neurodegenerative diseases that is useful to to carers, students and researchers.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Pharmacology

The Quality of Medical Data

Self-Description:A research resource for informaticians, epidemiologists, healthcare workers, insurers, and patients interested in the issues surrounding the quality of medical data and the use of medical data for secondary purposes. Topics include the current state of the quality of medical data, the factors that influence quality, and the effects of quality on efforts to use existing clinical data for secondary purposes such as epidemiology and pay-for-performance initiatives.

Radiation Oncology

Radiopaedia.org

Self-Description:Radiopaedia.org is the fastest growing collaborative radiology resource. You can browse through thousands of articles and interesting and illustrative cases or get involved and edit or add content.

TPL(Toronto Public Library) Health & Wellness

Self-Description:This site, created and maintained by the Business, Science & Technology Department of the Toronto Public Library, is designed to help you find reliable, understandable health information for you and your family.

Wikikidney.org

Self-Description:Our mission is to use this medium to make the public more aware of kidney disease in a sincere effort to prevent it when we can, and to help our colleagues achieve good outcomes in those who already have end stage renal disease. Our role is to provide as much information as possible to patients, professionals and the general public, with the hopes that this education will be a motivating factor in making the necessary changes to prevent or stall chronic kidney disease.